Joe Rogan doesn’t perceive why former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has to spend even a single day behind bars.
In March, Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading no-contest to quite a lot of fees together with tried homicide following his preliminary arrest again in 2022 stemming from an 11-mile excessive pace chase. Velasquez was pursuing a automotive containing Harry Goularte, a person accused of molesting the fighter’s son at a daycare owned by his mom. Velasquez fired a number of rounds from a .40-caliber handgun on the automobile containing Goularte, with a bullet hanging Goularte’s stepfather Paul Bender being struck within the arm.
On his podcast, Rogan spoke with former UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria concerning the scenario.
“He did what each father would’ve carried out,” Rogan stated. “If you happen to’re not a father, you don’t perceive the murderous rage you’d have if some man molested your child. You don’t perceive. You’ll see pink in a approach that nobody would describe to you until you’re a mother or father, that f*cking anger.
“I imply, if there’s ever a plea for momentary madness, that’s the plea. If there’s ever an individual that might justifiably say, ‘I used to be briefly insane,’ it’s a father chasing after somebody, particularly a person that molests your boy. …
“Everyone understands it,” Rogan continued. “He ought to’ve by no means gone to jail. He’s not a menace to society, he’s not a hazard, he shouldn’t be in jail, and he already did three years. … It’s horrific. I simply don’t perceive it.
“I imply, the decide’s fingers have been tied, he needed to make a sentence and I feel that is the minimal quantity. They tried to present him 30 years for tried homicide as a result of he was simply capturing at this man. Clearly, whenever you’re driving and your capturing, you could possibly miss him and kill a bystander. It’s very harmful. But in addition, the man was in a murderous rage for a superb cause, and if he killed that man, the world can be higher off. That’s my feeling.”
Velasquez received credit score for 1,283 days of the five-year sentence earlier than going again to jail after sentencing.
Rogan was lately in Miami calling the motion for UFC 314, an occasion attended by President Donald Trump. The longtime UFC shade commentator, podcaster, and comic hopes that Trump may assist Velasquez, maybe with some help from UFC CEO Dana White.
“I hope Trump pardons him,” Rogan stated. “I hope Dana makes one thing occur with that.”
